Product Description: Illustrates how a changing U.S. economy demands a revival of employer-based workforce training and suggests a new model of apprenticeship founded on the best of practices past and present, overseas and at home.• Includes excerpts from interviews and observations from the author's travels through Europe, where apprenticeship has been revitalized with great success• Discusses the current best practices and potential of community colleges collaborating with employers to facilitate apprenticeship training and college credit/courses• Includes sidebars that document how local or regional collaboratives for registered apprenticeship at community colleges can have a tremendous economic development benefit• Describes real-world employer experiences with apprenticeship, offering insightful commentary on what works and doesn't work from their diverse perspectives―including employers abroa...read more

This book is a one-stop guide for trainers/instructors of adults in industry, business, or the professions. Written for all levels, from novice to expert instructor, it presents the fundamental principles and skills of successful instruction, with practical examples that illustrate or clarify concepts. This newly revised edition has been expanded and updated to include the use of computers and software in the classroom, especially computer-based testing and computer-assisted instruction and technology. This book includes discussion on how to: --communicate clearly --motivate adult learners --write and use instructional objectives --plan effective lessons --select instructional methods --develop and construct tests --evaluate lessons, courses, and programs

Product Description: This volume reviews the trends in professional continuing education, including the major players - professional associations, commercial vendors, proprietary schools, not-for-profit organizations, and more - partnerships between the academy and employers, and what makes continuing education programs successful...read more

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Product Description: Apprenticeship education and training programs for today's youth and tomorrow's workers have become increasingly important in today's schools. This guide provides examples and tools for designing and developing apprenticeship education and training programs...read more

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Product Description: This book offers practical guidance on how to plan, set up, and run cooperative education programs in community colleges and high schools in cooperation with business and industry. It presents the philosophy, the procedures, the pitfalls and how to avoid them, and, of course, the benefits of such programs...read more

Product Description: This book is a comprehensive guide to academic writing and publishing. It approaches the subject from a descriptive foundation for understanding academic tenure and promotion decisionmaking. The book then treats the considerations for selecting the avenues open to an academic for publishing: conference papers, grants, journals, scholarly books, texts, and popular or trade books...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Degree-earning apprenticeships are becoming recognized as legitimate programs of study at community colleges. This book analytically describes the role of apprenticeship as an instructional methodology in post-secondary technical education...read more

Product Description: Based on extensive primary source analysis and in-depth interviews with key figures in the field of public debt administration and policy development, this volume presents a comprehensive history of the U.S. public debt from 1775--when the first debt was incurred to finance the Revolutionary War--to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)